27.11.2009 – After 11 hours on the bumpy ride, it was great to see Penang island on sight. Been 17 years since I last had Penang food in my tummy. Still remembered when I was a young boy elated of that road trip from Singapore – Melacca – Kuala Lumpur - Ipoh – Penang and return along with my parents and sister. There was this reclining buddha in mind, snake temple, pagoda and those mouth watering food by the open air market I recalled.
I was wondering how Penang looks like since my last visit but looks like it haven't change much except for the poignant food odor that's already in the air. And much likely to have hours of feast n' fiesta with The SFWs.
Mike reached 4 hours earlier than me from Kuala Lumpur (that was 5 hours as compared to mine, 11 freaking hours) and I was kinda giddy headed still but stay vigorous after a can of coffee bought earlier. Man, since when I last had such an arduous road trip? I can't recall. Adrian, Gab & Mike pick me up 15 mins later but looks like the team were still in slumberland (all of them look tired) albeit his place was just 7 mins away from the bus terminal.
Greeted everyone and threw off with my jokes for the day. Then, we went nearby market for breakfast. It's always good to have a few old chaps around for some laughs and joke, the fun thing was sending mms updates to our beloved EJ who was in Borneo busy being a government servant cum servant at Jamie's kopitiam in Sibu. Well, for every meal we had, the sessions were always filled with message tones and phone pad taps. Welcome to the 21st century where everyone is connected, anytime, anywhere – micro updates is essential lately.
This is Penang Curry Mee. It tasted like our Sarawak Laksa but just something different here. The toppings of squid and cockles.
After breakfast, we started off a few rounds of errands for the entire day and gawd I tell you it was damn freaking tiresome for repetitions but we just go with the trend and ignore the redundancy of task, simply by having some twist and turns of video shootings, photography – snappy till flabby, together with a few funny statements and sing-along session so it'll not bore us to death – definitely not… for the guys. Gabby, on the other hand gave us some cool ideas that were implemented into our works making it foolproof. Indeed, she's the dame of The SFW! bwaahahhaha!
We ordered Domino Pizza's for our lunch. Adrian grabbed out some of his coupons (The Late Coupon Bonanza). In other words, Domino Pizza will give away one regular pizza for free IF they are late for delivery. Thank god! THEY WERE LATE! So we had another free regular pizza for our lunch. HAHAAHA! And another Late Coupon Bonanza were given… Man.. I wonder if Domino Pizza will ever survive like that. XD
Ah… the cheesy loaf with salsa sauce!
For of us on the dining dock! Hey I like this when the 4 of us were on the devices, just like the scenes in the cyber cafe!
Taste good man!!!!
Of course we must have time constraint for this trip by rewarding ourself with something after the hard work – seafood!! We wrap our Day 1 works with the treat *clap clap* and good to go. Nothing lavish or expensive but just some wonderful seafood meals along with a few sunset shots at Teluk Kumbar. It was awesome!! Thanks to the Garmin GPS that brought us there hahahahaha. After, we visited The Queensbay Mall for some windows shopping and back home at 12am. Why so late? Cause we hang out @ Starbucks Coffee and relaxed~ Looks like a family day out wannabe LOL!
Take a deep breathe!
On the Sandy Shores
Wonderful Sunset @ Teluk Kumbar
Golden sunset with cirrus intortus along with stratocumulus (referring to the clouds) formed.
The chicken satay was well-marianated, sweet and juicy but too bad there's no satay gravy for this. 
Yeap.. the deep fried squid best served with plain rice and customized chili sauce.
My favorite vegetable on every dining occasion, Kai-lan. I prefer Kai-lan with big onions. 
Last but not least, oven baked crab. It's a bit dry and tasteless. Kinda regretted to order this. Should have ordered Nestle Oat Flavor. Nevermind 
Gab with her new idol. Oh… no more Harry Potter ka? hahahah
Adrian with his favorite magazine, Mobile World, who's also a big fan of Nokia phones (to date)
Gimme some lollipop!
Reading reading reading….
The next morning we had full loads of dim sum breakfast to fill our stomach before we move to youth park to have some shots and fun around. Well, Information undisclosed.
Variety of Dim Sum on our table. Man… we bloated after…. haha!
Carrot cake taste good! Behind left was deep fried bean curd and right, yam puff.
Dim Sum specialty – Miniature burger
I love this glutinous rice or what they called Lor Mai Kai
(with chicken cubes, mushrooms and taiwan sausage)
Late noon, we check out Gurney Plaza and had A&W for lunch. It had been long since I last pay this american restaurant a visit and still, The Root Beer Float taste better than ever. Yeah, I had my A&W (when I was young) every month while it was still open for business back then. The outlet was unbeatable as compared with KFC or MacD but unfortunately A&W's business went sloppy and closed down. How sad of that!
After our gurney plaza stroll, we bought some pirated DVD, snacks and headed back home for a short nap before we made our way to The Cathederal of The Holy Spirit. I was surprised with the pro-anti ISA spirit in this church and I do agree with the grudge that all nations had undergone. Freed the innocence and ISA is just another crappy government department in Malaysia that's deemed useless to be frank. I am also surprised to watch youtube being broadcasted live there – to the general audience during father's preaching. It's about The Advent Conspiracy! Watch it below…. After mass, it was time to feast again and guess what we had?
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Ya.. who likes ISA? Barely no one except the officials.
Still bright but we're late for mass! ahhhh!!
ADVENT CONSPIRACY
(watch the video to understand what's it about)
Mass ended at 7PM and we were all like hungry ghost searching for food. Panic not! There's a kopitiam just behind the cathedral and I ordered a number of them. Most of the dish were pretty affordable. Check it out!
The famous Penang Laksa @ RM3. Mmmm Sour Sour!
You shouldn't miss Penang Char Kueh Teow as well, with prawns and cockles.
Now this is a bit alien, Penang ramen. The dish doesn't present well with what the image being portrayed… ended up it taste like cantonese noodle. Not bad!
I didn't try this but gab said it was okay.
Hahaha this is weirdo Rojak first time ever seen!
So we pay MOMMY WANG a visit, just opposite Queensbay Mall (after dinner)…
Colorful drinks from strawberry to blueberry to papaya (with black pearl)
The taiwan chicken chop taste norm – just like those eaten by the Taiwanese road stalls. Kinda salty and they put lotsa pepper on it.
Adrian introduced us this…Taiwanese Sweet Potato. Woah.. I think the MSG was a bit overly. Kinda sweet and salty Not bad after all..
To conclude this, I'd like to say a big thank you to my godparents (^_^'''), and Mike as well of having this wonderful short holiday together. Of course this short holiday was meant for something else that need to be accomplished. I do enjoyed the stay although it's short but the echos remain inside. Applause to all with the great effort! It was a memorable ones. Bless ya all… ONCE AGAIN, SFW DID IT AGAIN! Bwhahahahahahahah! Thanks for reading this crap!
Joe.
Was kinda tired when I edited this and didn’t notice either. haha!
Merry Christmas To you!!!!
